Solution providers this week were tweeting about President Obama's TechHire initiative, security breaches, adding a channel spin to popular hashtags and even high-fiving a celebrity donating a 3D printed arm to a disabled child.Via itbestofbreed.com

EMC is using a truce between it and its investors to strengthen its message that the EMC Federation is the key to long-term success. For now, it is a message that's resonating with partners.

SoftwareONE acquires CompuCom's software business, in a consolidation of two Microsoft partners that were born in the 1980s and have had a financially lucrative ride on the licensing gravy train.

Forbes just released its annual list of the richest people in the world, and many of the uber-rich are found in the tech industry. Here are the top 20 tech billionaires of 2015.

The company, whose flagship SaaS offering automates the time-consuming process of moving workloads from one cloud to another, now has a powerful distributor hawking its wares through channel partners.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things, businesses are taking the offensive on the array of employee-owned unmanageable connected devices in their enterprise networks, according to a report by market research firm Infonetics.

The company, which helps traditional software vendors sell their products as cloud services, sets sights on customers outside the technology industry.

For the week ending March 13, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

For the week ending March 13, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

Channel chiefs from Brocade Communications, F5 Networks and Extreme Networks talk to CRN about managing a channel with thousands of partners, which they say can be a daunting challenge.

The dispute between EMC and investors over the fate of the EMC Federation may be new, but it is a product of more than a decade of acquisitions.

Also in top stories, IDC says tablet market growth will continue to slow. Plus, EMC's Tucci stays tight-lipped and a special announcement from CRN.

As part of Storage Week 2015, the CRN Test Center shows how to turn a storage array into recurring revenue for managed service providers.

NPD Group compiled a comprehensive list of the top 10 best-selling notebook models from 2014, based on numbers from its DistributorTrack sales database.

InsideSales has hired two Salesforce executives, and won backing from the CRM leader.

The analytics platform vendor believes a decade of proprietary data is a major differentiator.

Worldwide shipments in 2015 will grow 2.1 percent, the market research firm predicts. Partners have mixed views on tablets' future.

Juniper Networks says new products it unleashed on Wednesday include security upgrades, with the hopes of eventually becoming the "network security leader," as well as providing fresh market opportunities and investments.

VCE's new VxBlocks will offer a choice when it comes to software-defined networking: Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure or VMware's NSX.

Even though sales, as a practice, is evolving in the IT channel, CLV still isn’t top of mind for every value chain organization. Via itbestofbreed.com